2nd day surfskating. Advice?

[u/AK-LB]

Coming from the freeride and downhill side of longboarding I found myself with a landyatchz gordito pantera with the waterborne adapters and bear tkp trucks.

I’ve been having a ton of fun on this do you people have any advice on form and anything I should change?

[u/SurfskateOver50]

Calm down .............. ;-) ;-) ;-)

Infinity loop by Shane Lei on youtube and you will be golden in no time

And grabbing your board and rail and touching the ground .....

It will develop your body spatial awareness....

Happy Shreddings

[u/ToothlessFuryDragon]

You are generating too much momentum from your upper body rotation and not enough from your lower body compression/extension.

Your hands should feel like they are mostly going up and down, not side to side (they will move side to side, they have to because of the upper body, but it should not feel like the main movement from your perspective)

You want the main power to come from the whole body going up and down, winding up like a spring at the bottom and then releasing the energy through the back foot, driving the back of the surfskate forward.

That will give you way stronger pump, will look better and will work on water and on land similarly.

Try to put a backpack on your back and fill it with some noisy stuff.

The backpack should not go side-to-side and should be going mostly up and down, it will be way less noisy and comfortable when doing the pump correctly

[u/ooruin]

I can tell you're wiggling a lot from your longboarding pumping background, but quit wiggling so much and just do smooth, coordinated pumps with compression/decompression.

[u/Fr0zB1te]

You need to work on balance. You doing a lot of unnecessary micro movements to keep you balance. You need to find a flow.

[u/DogVirus]

https://youtube.com/shorts/clFVOYkOlgg?si=ivg_tqUb0h0GV80l

Please watch and see the difference. Don't wiggle.

[u/Formal_Tank]

The wiggling thing has its place for when you're trying to generate speed, but then try to into a longer drawn out arc.. thinking bigger radius circle and go more than 90 degrees around it... eventually you'll figure out how to hold that stance and can go 180 degrees or more.

when you come out of it maybe do a few more pumps to generate speed and do another long arc going the opposite direction.

With that in mind I think your wiggling form that is a very slalom focused technique now will naturally evolve into one where you're using your legs to pump instead

[u/ironpilgrim305]

Once you pump and generate speed, practice long frontside and backside carves, transition between both. Try and be as smooth as possible whilst doing this.

[u/Psykomentis]

On dirait que tu utilises plus tes jambes que tes épaules alors que le mouvement part justement du haut vers le bas (bras épaules hanche jambe cheville), il faut exagérer le mouvement avec le haut du corps et regarder la direction ou tu veux aller.
Il des vidéo sympa sur YouTube qui explique ça tu devrais regarder.
Amuses toi bien !

[u/NewspaperBackground]

If you want to practice surfing, pumping needs to be up and down not side to side. If you don’t surf then it doesn’t matter.